**Source: PSS vol. 49**

Dear Citizen!

Tria has transmitted to me your letter of December 28, 1914.

You are clearly mistaken: we stand on the point of view of international revolutionary social-democracy, while you stand on the point of view of national-bourgeois ideology. We work for the rapprochement of workers of different countries (and especially of warring countries), while you, it seems, are drawing closer to the bourgeoisie and the government of "your" nation. We have no common ground.

N. Lenin
Bern, January 12, 1915
Bern. Uljanow. Distelweg. 11.

in the journal

Sent to Constantinople

First published in 1924

in *Proletarskaya Revolutsiya* No. 3

Printed from the manuscript